From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.3 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00,INVALID_MSGID autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103376,b47b15fda2aeb0b2 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public From: jsa@alexandria (Jon S Anthony) Subject: Re: Two ideas for the next Ada Standard Date: 1996/09/06 Message-ID: #1/1 X-Deja-AN: 178781475 sender: news@organon.com (news) references: <96090416102641@psavax.pwfl.com> organization: Organon Motives, Inc. 4 sep 1996 16: 10:26 -0400 newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Date: 1996-09-06T00:00:00+00:00 List-Id: In article <96090416102641@psavax.pwfl.com> "Marin David Condic, 407.796.8997, M/S 731-93" writes: > Jon S Anthony writes: Wow. Something is _really_ screwy with my address. I'm certainly not at "americant.edu" - I'm at where my sig. sez. I wonder what the deal is with this - some others have pointed out some screwy things with my address too. > I imagine this is a common problem when switching from *any* > language to *any other*. It's hard to convince many people that > they need to adjust the way they think about solving the problems > to the (dare I use the word?) paradigm imposed by the new > language. To me, the trick has always been to understand what it is that the various constructs and their interrelationships are trying to solve or what capability they are trying to provide. I mean this at the level of the language - not "just" the programmer's view trying to write a hunk of code. Once you have that, it is fairly easy to move around. "Oh language X solves that problem with A, B, and C. Interesting. Language Y solves it with R and Q." The only place where you may hit a speed bump with this is when moving between procedural and declarative languages. /Jon -- Jon Anthony Organon Motives, Inc. 1 Williston Road, Suite 4 Belmont, MA 02178 617.484.3383 jsa@organon.com